Food Records from Around the Globe

Check out the world's most fascinating food records!

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Most Jalapeño Chiles Eaten in 1 Minute

Most Jalapeño Chiles Eaten in 1 Minute

Record holder: Alfredo Hernandes

Location: USA

September 17, 2006

Heedless of the digestive difficulties that must necessarily have followed, Alfredo Hernandes consumed 16 fiery jalapeño chiles in one minute. This is one food feat we don't encourage you to try at home, unless you like breathing fire.

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Strangest Diet

Strangest Diet

Record Holder: Michel Lotito (a.k.a. Mr. Mangetout)

Location: Grenoble, France

Since 1959

While this record doesn't involve food per se, the record for Strangest Diet does concern eating. Michel Lotito has been ingesting metal and glass on a regular basis since 1959. Also known as Mr. Mangetout (or Mr. "Eats Everything"), Lotito eats two pounds of metal each day, a feat gastroenterologists describe as "unique." Lotito says he is made ill by foods such as hard-boiled eggs and bananas. Go figure.

Most Jalapeño Chiles Eaten in 1 Minute

Record holder: Alfredo Hernandes

Location: USA

September 17, 2006

Heedless of the digestive difficulties that must necessarily have followed, Alfredo Hernandes consumed 16 fiery jalapeño chiles in one minute. This is one food feat we don't encourage you to try at home, unless you like breathing fire.

Gord Horne/Istock

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Strangest Diet

Record Holder: Michel Lotito (a.k.a. Mr. Mangetout)

Location: Grenoble, France

Since 1959

While this record doesn't involve food per se, the record for Strangest Diet does concern eating. Michel Lotito has been ingesting metal and glass on a regular basis since 1959. Also known as Mr. Mangetout (or Mr. "Eats Everything"), Lotito eats two pounds of metal each day, a feat gastroenterologists describe as "unique." Lotito says he is made ill by foods such as hard-boiled eggs and bananas. Go figure.

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Largest Spun Pizza Crust

Record Holder: Tony Gemignani

Location: Mall of America, Minneapolis, Minnesota

April 20, 2006

Pizza-wielding hotshot Tony Gemignani spun 17.6 ounces of dough for 2 minutes to form a pizza crust whose diameter topped out at 33.2 inches. Gemignani spun for the gold as part of the Food Network's Guinness World Records Week.

Contra Costa Times/Doug Duran

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Tallest Sandwich

tallest sandwich

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Largest Gingerbread House

Record Holder: Roger Pelcher

Location: Mall of America, Bloomington, Minnesota

November 22, 2006

It seems fitting that the largest gingerbread house was constructed in the largest mall in the United Statesmdash; seven Yankee Stadiums could fit inside the Mall of America! The gingerbread house measured more than 67 feet tall, and it took Pelcher and his team nine days to construct the 1,496-square-foot confection. We wonder how long it would take to eat it.

PRNewsFoto/Mall of America, Allen Brisson-Smith

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Largest Burger

Record holder: Mallie's Sports Bar & Grill

Location: Southgate, Michigan

July 31, 2008

With 24 hours' notice and a mere $400, you and a hungry pack of your closest friends, relatives, and/or neighbors can sit down to the world-record-breaking "Absolutely Ridiculous Burger" at Mallie's Sports Bar in small-town Michigan. The 134-pound burger (post-cooking weight), topped with cheese, bacon, and all the fixings, is housed in a giant 50-pound bun and measures two feet in diameter. The record-breaker joins the ranks of Mallie's other big burgers, which weigh in at 12, 6, and 1/2 pounds.

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Guinness World Record Holding Queen Cupcake

Record setter: Passion for Pastry

Location: Boca Raton, FL

Date: October 3, 2009

Cupcake measurements: 5 feet tall and 4 feet wide

Forget about teeny-tiny lunch-bag treats. A supersized cupcake trend has hit! Passion for Pastry, a shop in Boca Raton, FL, set the record on October 3, 2009, with its 5-foot-tall, 4-foot-wide cupcake, prepared for the second annual Think Pink Rocks charity concert presented by Steve Rifkind and SRC/Universal Records.

Five-inch sprinkles adorned the colossal 1,316-pound chocolate sweet, and it was crowned with 12-inch-wide cherry garnish.

The charity concert, developed by Think Pink founders, raises awareness of the breast cancer gene (BRCA) and funds for charities doing breast cancer research. The guests traded donations for bites of the pink-frosted cupcake at the pink-carpet ceremonies before the show.

Charles Whitman

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Largest Single Plate of Hummus

Record holder: Hummus Tzabar

Location: Jerusalem, Israel

May 8, 2008

Garlic breath be darned, market-goers at the Mahaneh Yehuda market in Jerusalem tucked into more than 1,000 tons of lemony chickpea dip from the largest single plate of hummus on Israeli Independence Day ("Yom Haatzmaut") 2008. We're really hoping no one double-dipped.